Shado-Pan Reputation Farming Guide (WoD 6.1.2)

The Shado-Pan is a warring faction that protects the Pandaren lands.
Specifically, they guard the Serpent Spine, the great wall that separates
the Pandaren from the Yaungol and the Mantid.

After reaching level 90, you will be able to increase your reputation with
the Shado-Pan by doing daily quests at the Shado-Pan Garrison in the Townlong
Steppes. There, you will have to attack nearby Yaungol, Mantid, and Mogu outposts.

In this guide, we will detail the three questing locations and explain how to
obtain all the related achievements.

Every day, you will be able to do the daily quests proposed at the Shado-Pan
Garrison in the Townlong Steppes. These daily quests will send you questing
at 1 of 3 questing locations where you will always do 4 warm-up
quests before doing a final quest, during which you will have to kill an elite mob.

Every day, you will be able to choose a Shado-Pan NPC who will accompany you
through the quests, helping you fight your foes. Every now and then, you will
be offered a challenge quest at the Shado-Pan Garrison, during which
you will need to defeat a Shado-Pan champion. Succeeding will unlock the help
of this NPC for your daily quests.

From the point of view of the reputation grind, you will earn 250 reputation
from each of the daily quests, meaning that you will earn 1,250 reputation a day.
If you get a challenge quest, then you will earn an additional
350 reputation.

You can earn another 400 reputation a day by doing the Shado Pan Work Order
at your farm (see our Tillers guide).

Note that you can easily reach (almost) honored
reputation by simply doing all the Shado-Pan quests in Townlong Steppes.

After reaching exalted reputation, there will
be a mini quest line to serve as a conclusion to your adventures with the
Shado-Pan.

1.1. Grand Commendation of the Shado-Pan

As soon as you reach revered reputation with
the Shado-Pan, make sure to purchase the Grand Commendation of the Shado-Pan from
the faction quartermaster. Using
this item will allow you to reach exalted reputation
much faster.

1.2. Champion A Faction

In order to increase your reputation gains with the Shado-Pan, you can
choose to champion them in the reputation tab of your character
panel. This will cause you to gain addition reputation when doing various
activities, but mostly through running Heroic dungeons and scenarios.

All the rewards, with the exception of one mount, can be bought from
Rushi the Fox, the Shado-Pan Quartermaster, who is located at the
Shado-Pan Garrison in the Townlong Steppes.

2.1. Tabard

After reaching exalted reputation, you can
buy the Shado-Pan Tabard, which costs 10 .

2.2. Mounts

After reaching exalted reputation, you will be
given a few quests which will eventually reward you with
the Reins of the Onyx Cloud Serpent. During the Mists of Pandaria beta, we made
a short video to show the various Cloud Serpent mounts we had collected:

Every day, you will be given one of three sets of daily quests. Each set of
daily quests is named (according to the type of NPC that will accompany you,
see next section) and takes place in a specific area of the Townlong
Steppes:

Omnia Mystics (at Shan'ze Dao);

Blackguard Defenders (at Deadtalker's Plateau and Fire Camp Gai Cho);

Wu Kao Assassins (at Sra'vess).

In each case, you will do 4 daily quests, which you can turn in to the
NPC accompanying you (see below), before having to kill an elite enemy unit in a final
quest.

3.1. Shado-Pan Heroes

Every day, you will be able to chose a Shado-Pan Hero to accompany you
in your daily quests. They will fight by your side, taunt the adds and make
the daily quests a lot easier. The following NPCs are available:

Not all of the NPCs will be available on a given day. It has been
reported by a
Wowhead user that each NPC is tied to a particular set of daily quests.
Additionally, only 3 NPCs are available initially, the other NPCs are unlocked
at later stages by completing quests that will be given at the Garrison.

The NPCs accompanying you will assist you with their abilities. Omnia Mystics
are like Frost Mages, they are DPS casters with a lot of slowing abilities. Blackguard
Defenders are tanks, they will taunt enemies and survive for a bit. Wu Kao Assassins
are Rogues, they will put you in Stealth mode when you are out of combat.

3.2. Omnia Mystics Quests

The Omnia Mystics daily quests are given to you by
Ban Bearheart at the Shado-Pan Garrison. They will send you to
the northern island of Shan'ze Dao, where you will have to prevent
the Mogu from experimenting with Cloud Serpents.

None of these quests is complicated enough to warrant a detailed explanation.
Simply keep in mind that for In Sprite Of Everything, the NPC you have
to kill is located in a cave, the entrance of which is just south of the
quest objective on your map.

The first time you reach Shan'ze Dao, you will be able to take
the Through the Portal quest from Moshu the Arcane. He is
located inside the cave in the southern part of the island, where
the Shado-Pan has established a small outpost. Completing this quest
requires you to gather 1,000 Ancient Arcane Powder, which
mostly drop from Darkwoods Charmers (small creatures that you find
in the south-western part of the island). You will be rewarded
with a portal that you can take to freely transport your character
from the Shado-Pan Garrison to Shan'ze Dao and vice versa.

3.3. Blackguard Defenders Quests

The Blackguard Defenders daily quests are given to you by
Master Snowdrift at the Shado-Pan Garrison. They will
send you to Deadtalker's Plateau and Fire Camp Gai Cho, just north-east of the Garrison,
where you will have to deal with the Yaungol.

Note that the NPC accompanying you will put in a sort of Stealth mode
when you are not in combat or interacting with objects, allowing you to move
rather freely around the Mantid mobs.

Also, The Bigger They Come..., can be hard. There are about 4 or 5 such elite mobs
patrolling the island, so they can be difficult to find when too many players are also
doing the daily quests. Some of the elite mobs or their accompanying mobs have a sort
of fear, which will often cause you to pull more mobs into the fight, so be careful.

By reaching exalted reputation with the
Shado-Pan, you will automatically get the Defender of Gods and
The Shado-Master achievements. Additionally, you will have done
the daily quests enough times to have received all the
challenge quests, thus triggering the Proven Strength
achievement. In the next sections, we explain
how to get the remaining achievements:

5.1. Know Your Role

To complete Know Your Role, you need to complete each of the
Blackguard Defenders daily quests without taking damage from
monsters. Without taking damage means not getting hit; for example,
if you get hit while under the protection of a shield, such as Ice Barrier,
you will fail the objective.

Our first advice for this achievement, is to take one quest at a time. The
reason for this is simple. If you have several Blackguard Defenders
quests in your journal and you get hit, then you will fail them all and you will
have to abandon them.

Our second advice is to group with a friend and let them do all the work,
while standing at a safe distance. The next day, you can repay the favor.

If you cannot get anyone to help you, then you will have to heavily rely on
your Shado-Pan companion. One problem with that is that many mobs will still
target you with their abilities, even if the Shado-Pan companion is taunting
them.

At the battlefield (where the fighting occurs), you need to
wait until a large group of Mantid attacks a large group of Yaungol.
Then use the explosives when you can target both groups at the same time.
It looks as if the explosives do not always kill the targets right away
and leave a DoT. In this case, you can simply toss another load of
explosives to finish the enemies. They should still count
towards the completion of the achievement.

5.3. Silent Assassin

To complete Silent Assassin, you need to kill exactly
the right amount of mobs during the Sra'vess Wetwork and
The Bigger They Come.... This means 4 elite Mantid mobs and
15 lesser Mantid mobs. Once you have turned in these
quests, you will be assured to get the achievement upon
completing the final quest of the day (even if you kill the
adds next to the final elite mob).

Players have reported that turning in the final quest while mounted
can prevent the achievement from triggering.

5.4. Loner and a Rebel

Loner and a Rebel is a very straightforward achievement to complete. Simply
do each set of daily quests without a Shado-Pan companion. This means that you
must have the Choose a Shado-Pan Companion buff active from the moment you
take the daily quests to the moment you turn in the final quest.

Omnia Mystics and Blackguard Defenders will normally not pose
problems. Wu Kao Assassins is another story. Without a companion in
Sra'vess, you will not be put into Stealth mode. This means that quests like
Fumigation will take a lot more time and will be more dangerous.

5.5. Getting Around with the Shado-Pan

Completing the Getting Around with the Shado-Pan achievement
requires you to do 15 daily quests with each of the 9 Shado-Pan
companions. This means 3 days worth of daily quests for each
companion, so 27 days in total (more if you are unlucky and
never get one set of dailies).

Make sure to dismount before turning in the quests, as otherwise you will
not get credit for the achievement's objectives.